Byzantine Empire
Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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Summary
Byzantine Empire is an empire[1]. It draws 139,176 Wikipedia views per month (empire category, ranking #4 of 28).[2]
Key Facts
- Religion or worldview: Eastern Orthodoxy[3]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Roman Empire[4]
- Country: Roman Empire[5]
- Continent: Europe[6], Africa[7], Asia[8]
- Instance of: historical country[9], historical period[10], failed state[11], administrative territorial entity[12], culture[13]
- Head of state: Byzantine emperor[14]
- Capital: Constantinople[15]
- Official language: medieval Latin[16], medieval Greek[17]
- Currency: solidus[18], Byzantine coinage[19], miliaresion[20], hyperpyron[21], Histamenon[22], Stavraton[23]
- Shares border with: Western Roman Empire[24]
- Basic form of government: absolute monarchy[25], Dominate[26]
- Named after: Constantinople[27]
- Follows: Ancient Rome[28], Low Roman Empire[29], Eastern Roman Empire[30]
- Followed by: Umayyad Caliphate[31], Rashidun Caliphate[32], Ottoman Empire[33], Empire of Trebizond[34], Emirate of Crete[35]
- Part of: Roman Empire[36], Rome in the Middle Ages[37]
- Commons category: Byzantine Empire[38]
- Said to be the same as: Fúlǐn[39], Roman Empire[40]
- Inception: January 17, 395[41], 330[42], 286[43], 285[44]
- Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: May 29, 1453[45]
- Topic's main category: Category:Byzantine Empire[46]
- Commons gallery: Byzantine Empire[47]
- Population: 17,000,000[48]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Byzantine Empire[49]
- Described by source: The Catholic Encyclopedia[50], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[51], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[52], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[53], Old Book of Tang[54]
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Brands and Namesakes
Things named for Byzantine Empire include Ar-Rum[55], a surah[56] and Scylletium[57], a ruins[58], in Italy[59].
Why It Matters
Byzantine Empire has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[60] It is known by 106 alternative names across languages and contexts.[61]
Entities named for it include Ar-Rum[55], a surah[56] and Scylletium[57], a ruins[58], in Italy[59].